[cageface]

It's fitting though, that someone as uncritically admiring of Apple and its culture of control and secrecy would take this approach with his own blog.

I don't click on DF links anymore. His tap-dancing apologia are predictable and tiresome and disingenuous and I don't use Apple stuff anymore so I don't need his take on the iFoo of the moment.

[tptacek]

See? Look at the meme spread. It's like a political talking point. Some Frank Luntz somewhere started this idea that an easy way to write off a commentator you don't like is to remark about his lack of blog comments, and off we are to the races.

[cageface]

I write off Gruber precisely because he's so hyper-politicized that there's no need to actually read him and because he's so tragically wrong about so many things that really matter. That he disallows comments on his blog just happens to fit with the rest of his M.O. Good job mischaracterizing my post though.

I'd be a lot more impressed with the rest of the HN Apple mafia if they'd stop modding down anything critical of Apple and take the time to post some reasoned, articulate rebuttals.

[junkbit]

It's quite fitting. John Gruber is the Fox and Friends of the tech industry.